Cole County Democrat (Newspaper) - October 18, 1906, Jefferson City, Missouri COUNTY DEMOCRAT VOLUME XXIII CITY MISSOURI OCTOBER 18 1906 NUMBER If MISSOURI IS SAFE MR BRYAN CONFIDENT DEMOC RACY WILL WIN This Year Large Audiences Turn Out and There is Enthusiasm On Every Hand Jacksonville Oct Bryan believes that democracy will win in Missouri He address ed more than voters in that state last and had personal talks with all of the leaders After leaving the state and care fully considering the conditions he found there as compared with of two years ago when he campaigned before audiences that displayed the greatest apathy he feels that victory is sure for this year for the state ticket and that many congressmen will be return edby the democrats The keynote of his advice to the democrats of Missouri m all of his speeches was that to win and win safely and triumphantly it was only necessary to become fully awake to the and to out the vote evidence was insufficient to con vict the husband and he was turn ed loose The fine was paid The trouble arose on account of the defendants trying to break up a love affair between the convicted ladys sister and a young gentle man at St Charles They inter mail between the two and this was objected to by the young lady who had them arrested CHANGES IN ROUTES POSTMASTER READJUSTS POS TAL CARRIERS ROUTES APPOINTMENTS MADE President Cook of Commercial Club Appoints Delegates to Water ways Convention TO THE FRONT Insurance Superintendent Starts For Firing Hon W D Van diver Superintendent of Insurance and former congressman from the Missouri district leaves today for the firing and will be at the front from now on until elec tion day He opens in Clark county where he makes two speeches and then doubles back to Southeast Missouri where he makes three speeches closing at Desloge on the aoth From Desloge Mr Vandiver goes to Ashland Boone county where he speaks next Tuesday The next day he speaks at Arm strong in Howard county and from there he goes over into Charr iton county to deliver two speeches Thursday of next week The next day and night he will make two speeches in Kansas City and he goes from Kansas City up into Atchison county where he makes two speeches From Atchison county he goes back j to Southeast Missouri to make five more speeches there be ginning at Kennet Nov 2nd and closing at Cape Girardeau the night before the election Mr Vandiver is an old time campaigner and one of the most gifted orators in Missouri He presided at the Bryan meeting in Cape Girardeau last week where people assembled to hear the gospel of democracy from the lips of Bryan and Folk President Sam B Cook of the Commercial Club has announced his appointment of delegates to the Waterways Convention which held in St Novem ber 15 to 16 They are as follows Hon Edwin Silver Dr J R Forth and Judge A M Hough This Convention is held under the auspices of the Business Mens League of St Louis and is held for the purpose of promoting the deep the gulf to the lakes and the improvement of the Mississippi river and its tribu paries This kind of a move of course is important to Jefferson City and it is well the Business Mens Association of this city have taken the matter in hand and sent delegates to the convention as there may be things brought up that the Missouri river JOSEPH Nine Brought From Buchanan j County Nine prisoners were received at the penitentiary Tuesday They were in charge of Deputy Sheriffs A T Hill and Dave Shea of St Joseph The prisoners were from Buchanan county aud all were brought to the penitentiary sober Hers is the list of prisoners Grover C Marion four years forgery J A Lind two years grand larceny Tom three years larceny from a per son Harry Griffey seven years robbery Frank Haley three years grand larceny Elmer Bishop three years grand larceny Louise Brown alias Mamie Johnson two years robbery and Harry Thom as two years burglary and lar ceny ON John ing on Four OClock Collection From Bus iness Section Is Discontinu Improvements Postmaster W W Wagner Tuesday announced several changes in the arrangements for delivering and collecting mail Under the new order carriers will be assigned as follows No i Frank N Raithel No 2 Sid A Lindley No 3 Chas J Maus No 4 John H Delahay No 5 William M Rommel No 6 Chas F Miller No 7 Lester H Lockett No 8 Chas W Clarenbach The territories of these are as follows No i All territory east of La fayette street and north of Elm No 2 All territory north of High and between Lafayette and Madison No 3 All territory south of High to Elm and between Lafay ette and Madison No 4 All north of High to Elmand between Madison and Harrison No 6 All territory west of Harrison and all territory south of Elm and west of Broadway No 7 All territory south of Flm and East of Adams No All territory south of Elm and between Adams and Broad The advantage of the rearrange ment is that business mail is now divided between four carriers in stead of two as formerly thus less ening the volume of mail to be handled by any one carrier in the central section and placing a car rier in each of the four chief busi ness blocks at the same time en abling a large number of business houses to receive their mail much earlier than heretofore Owing to the irregularity in the arrival of the noon trains the first afternoon delivery will not be made until 2 p m hereafter As it is necessary to start the business carriers later they will not return to the office in time to make a 4 p m collection so that residence tonight that his condi tion is not regarded as serious The illness is a slight affection of the heart Overwork is probably the cause The work of the commission has been unusually heavy because of the new rate law and Commis Cockrell has remained at his desk all summer He is ex be well enough to travel in a few and he will go to his Missouri home at Warrensburg to rest He will remain West un til after the election and then re to Washington DID NOT HONOR COURTS ORDER Warden Hall Refuses to Turn Pris oner Over to Sheriff of Buch anan County The sheriff of Buchanan county was in the city Tuesday He had brought eight prisoners to the pen He also had an order with him to take Harver Pullen who is serving a sentence in the penitentiary for robbery to the Boonville Training School The order was given by Judge Casteel of the Buchanan county criminal court and was made on account of the youthfulness of the prisoner who is under 18 years of age Warden Hall claims that no one except the Governor has the right to commute the sentence of any one and thus refused to the prisoner over to the sheriff The matter will probably FIENDISH CRIME KILLS ENTIRE FAMILY Cuts Throats of Children an Threw Them in Quar rel Over Set of Harness Houston Oct Carney Parsons a wellknown Texas brought to the attention of governor at date be the collection will not made but the same hereafter be boxes will be collected from at 5 p m FINED TWENTYFIVE DOLLARS Wife Was Guilty But Husband Was Turned Loose on Insufficient Evidence The case against A A Matte son and his wife Grace which was tried in the Federal court in this city Tuesday was finished Tuesday and the culmination of the investigation brought forth a verdict turning the husband loose fining the wife y She plead guilty to the charges The John Scheperle of Millbrook one of Cole countys most substan tial farmers and a democrat of the Jefferson type was in the city on legal business with Hon W S Pope WIT Scheperle spent near ly all Wednesday in the city and returned home in the evening He says the rain of the last few days was not heavy enough to help the new wheat Mr Scheperle and his brother Joseph are contemplating a long journey visiting friends and rela tives at Buffalo Boston and other Eastern points They expect be a month to Goes to Texas Visit Johnson of near Scotts station left Tuesday night for a trip a visit to his brother and sister whom he has 23 Mr John will be gone several weaks 0 POLICE May be One of the Escaped Pris Sedalia A negro who gave his name as Harry Callaway was arrested yes by Policeman Staihr The negro had a pair of shoes that were stolen from the Missouri Pa railroad some two weeks ago and when questioned as to where he got them stated that he had found them in the railroad yards He is so near the description of one of the prisoners who escaped from the Sedalia jail the other day that the officials thought it ble to telegraph the sheriff of Pet tis county to see if he could iden the man The negro is evidently crooked and the officers will hold him until he can prove his innocence TO CONDUCT A STORE A Number of Colored People In Corporate for that Purpose A number of the most promi nent colored citizens of the city have incorporated a company known as the Capital City Mer cantile and will open up a store on Lafayette street for the accommodation of the colored cit of the town The company has a capital stock of half of which is paid up The officers of the company are J T Caston president J nett R F Fisher secretary J T Smith assistant secretary W L Bennett treas urer The above officers with the following constitute the board of directors Duke Diggs P Sanderson Josephus Roberts C B Lane W H Harrison V H Franklin county farmer his wife and their three young children were murder ed on Friday afternoon by Joseph Hamilton a young man who lives in the neighborhood of Platters Mill Hamilton is under arrest and confesses to the crimes He says he shot Parsons in a quarrel over a trade and then beat Mrs Parsons to death with the stock end of the gun and cut the throats of the three children in or der that there might be no eye witness to his deed The five bodies be threw in the Piney river It was the finding of two of them a child about 5 years old and an of i year that led to an investigation which re in Hamiltons arrest Hamilon was at church with his sweetheart when he learned that Judge W L Hill and Clark Doo ley had found the two bodies above the Platters Mill dam while and he hastily bade her started for Houston He rode into this town on one of Dooleys mules and hired a rig to drive to Cabool the nearest rail road station Someone recognized the mule as belonging to Parsons and ions were Sheriff tion had the right of course to indorse or not indorse law ment and whether it did or not will not affect my official course in the least The law will continue to be enforced regardless of what those who do not like it may say think or FATHER SELLS HIS CHILD Had Kidnapped Son and Held Hia for Ransom Which the Mother Paid in the Sum of Detroit Oct 13 By payment of in cash Mrs Montague C Rolls daughter of ames McGregor a wealthy bank president of this procured possession of her 3yearold son who was kidnaped by his father and held for ransom Rolls and the boy were ered in Canada Rolls named as the price for which he vould deliver the boy into his mothers hands Mrs Rolls attorney finally VIr Rolls to take onehalf of that amount John Upton at wired to intercept Simmons was Hamilton and an hour later the man was under arrest He broke down complete ly when placed in jail and told the full his crime According to his confession Hamilton traded some harness and a saddle which did not belong to him to Parsons tor a horse Later fearing he would get into trouble be started for the Parsons home t see Parsons On the road he me Parsons and his family in a wagon Hamilton and Parson had an altercation and shot Parsons dead before his wifi and children Then apparently crazed with a lust for blood ihe clubbed Mrs Parsons to death with the but enc The NEW TYPE Democrat Gets New Letter Head The Democrat always wanting to keep up with the strides of Greater Jefferson today received an entire new lot the paper The Democrat is the advertising medium of Jefferson City because it reaches more people than other paper in the city It is strictly on its merits and is nat backed by any political organiza tion and all know that it is the paper for the people of the gun and seizing the children throats one by one cut littl thei CAMPAIGN BEGINS IN EARNEST F M Cockrell HI From Overwork Washington October Commissioner Fl M Cockrell of Missouri has been confined to his borne here for the last week It was said at his FIFTY YEARS AGO The Missouri Pacific Railroad Ad in the St Louis Republic In a column of the St Louis Republic under the caption of Fifty Years Ago we noticed the following item about the Missouri Pacific Railroad which at that time was not built any further than this From here passengers were transferred to Kansas City and other western points by boats The Pacific Railroad advertised trains to leave the depot on Sev street every day at reaching Jefferson now Jefferson in seven hours connecting with boats for Kansas Weston and intermediate fare as low to all points as by boat from St Louis and from one to two days vr Candidates Start on Tour oi County The campaign begins in earnest this week and things will be lively from now on until the election The Democratic candidates left this morning for Marion where they begin their speaking tour around the county The licans left for Osage City for a still hunt tor votes Folk On St Louis Hiss Maiden Oct departing from here for New Mad rid this morning Governor Folk was asked what he thought of the action of the St Louis Democrat ic City convention in refusing to endorse the lid He said I am top busy making speeches for the State Democratic ticket to discuss St Louis politics I am not concerned about what the St Louis convention did or did not do There are more important thing to talk about The PROMINENT MAN TO Former Manager of a Lumbar Yard City is convict ed of Embezzlement Grant City Oct 13 R R Dowlin former manager of tHe Worth County Lumber Yard was sentenced today to two years jri the penitentiary by Judge Elli son i He embezzled of the companys money and pleaded guilty He will be taken to Jef ferson City Sunday Slipped On a Banana Peel John Raithel the big steak man of the City Meat Market had the misfortune to fall Sunday evening and break an arm at the wrist He slipped ona banana and as a result will carry an arm in a sling or several days Dr Clark was called to attend the injury and the many friends of Mr Raithel will be glad to know that he is doing nicely Dick Dolph Dead Dick Dolph proprietor of the End dairy is dead He dropped dead at the table while of a meal at about clock Sunday at his farm lie city Dolph was about 60 years and well known throughout the county R Hodges has sold land near to G A Barger
